Press Releases

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “Today's indictment by Special Counsel Mueller is a significant step forward in exposing Russia's political and electoral interference in our democracy and holding Russia, and its agents, accountable. The indictment spells out in exhaustive detail the breadth and systematic nature of Russia's conspiracy, dating back to 2014, as well as th...
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Los Angeles, CA – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “One week ago, the Department of Justice and FBI implored the White House not to release a deeply flawed and inaccurate memo prepared by Chairman Devin Nunes. The White House ignored their concerns and approved the publication of the Republican memo with no redactions even though the action was described by the agencies as extraordinarily rec...
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Los Angeles, CA – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement after HPSCI posted the transcript from Monday’s business meeting: “The February 5, 2018 transcript of the HPSCI hearing in which the Democratic response was voted out of Committee reveals several important points: “First, Chairman Nunes refused to answer multiple inquiries as to whether Majority Members or staff consulted or worked with th...
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Washington, DC – Today, the Minority of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence responded to the release of HPSCI Chairman Nunes’ memo: “Chairman Nunes’ decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel’s ongoing inves...
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Washington, DC — Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a follow up letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the companies provided an incomplete response to their initial questions about the online #ReleaseTheMemo campaign. Late last week, Facebook and Twitter responded to Schiff and Feinstein’s initial letter — those respon...
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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement after the transcript from HPSCI’s business meeting on the memo was published: “Today’s release of the transcript of Monday’s Committee meeting leaves no doubt about what transpired: “Over strong Minority objections, the Committee’s Majority took the extraordinary step on Monday of moving forward with public release of their flawed and misle...
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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) after discovering that the memo transmitted to the White House for review had been materially altered from the original version voted on by the Committee and presented to House Members the previous week. While the changes do not correct the profound distortions and inaccuracies found in the Nunes memo, they are changes tha...
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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke with reporters after the Committee voted to make the “Nunes memo” available to the public. Schiff also detailed the other votes that the Committee took. The full transcript is below: SCHIFF: Good evening. I want to give a quick briefing on the events in the committee this evening. I think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee, where for the firs...
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Los Angeles, CA – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: "The reports that the President not only considered firing Special Counsel Mueller, but went so far as to order it, demonstrate the Nixonian lengths this President is prepared to go to protect himself. Congress must make clear that any effort to remove the Special Counsel or impede his work would touch off a constitutional crisis which wo...
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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “Last week, House Intelligence Committee Republicans voted to release to all Members of the House a highly misleading ‘memo’ attacking the conduct of the Russia investigation by the FBI and the DOJ. Like its other attacks on those agencies, this represents another effort to distract from the Russia probe and undermine the Special Counsel. ...
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